February 14, 2023
A Philadelphia jury yesterday awarded former Philadelphia Eagles team captain Christopher Maragos $43.5 million in damages in a case of medical malpractice over a knee injury that ended his National Football League career in 2019. The civil case revolved around …
September 27, 2022
A former NFL player has been was awarded $28.5 million by a Manhattan jury ruling in his favor in a medical malpractice lawsuit over surgery that failed to fix his injured ankle, according to the player’s attorney. Attorney Jordan Mersen …
April 19, 2015
A U.S. judge declined to immediately approve the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s $75 million settlement of a lawsuit by college athletes who’ve suffered head injuries, giving a critic of the accord three weeks to file arguments opposing the revamped deal. …
December 9, 2011
National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman says there is not enough data yet to draw conclusions about the link between concussions and a degenerative brain ailment that has been found in four dead ice hockey players. The league wrapped up …
December 7, 2011
People playing contact sports assume the risk they will be injured, South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled this week, upholding a lower court’s ruling that said a man injured in a softball game should have known he could be hurt. David …